29 Comments

anonymous

For the love of everything that’s holy, this photo terrifies me. That poor child. Just because you can buy a cute hat and diaper cover does NOT mean you should attempt these. It looks like a very bad attempt at what was supposed to be a composite.

Comment “Oh this photo makes me sad” next to this photo….should give the fauxhog a hint….this is actually a nice pose to do with bubby when they’re ASLEEP or RELAXED….how and why this photographer decided to watermark this struggle with the baby is not a very good advertisement.

RangerBob

Broken Focus

OMG! My friend’s cousin out of state had photos done and they snapped a shot of the baby burping and it looked like this. Strangely enough, more of these photos that are similar to this one are popping up left and right. I mean, maybe it’s “Mommy/Daddy’s first burping” and I GUESS I kind of get why you would want this documented, but isn’t there a more flattering shot? Wouldn’t from the side make better sense?

With the chin in the upper left it almost looks like he’s going to chuck the baby out of the window…but I have a vivid imagination half the time I look at these photos anyway. *hops off soapbox*

Shannon

LOLZ

I’ve been following the links to You’re Not a Photographers via FB for a year or so now and, in addition to being appalled, I always wonder, what in the world makes these people think they are photographers and, worse, who actually hires these people to take photos? Did the alleged photographer take a nice photo one time and someone say, “Nice picture. You should be a photographer.” I’ve been working a professional photographer, in military and industrial settings, for more than 25 years and everyone who has a camera takes a nice photo every so often. A professional takes nice photos almost all that time. Someone needs to tell these fauxtographers to stop.

MP

Gal with a Camera

OMG! I agree with the commenter… this photo makes me sad. :/
And it ALSO makes me want to slap the photographer in the face! And whoever is holding that poor baby’s head!!!!
Goodness, why would you even think this was a good idea?! THE KID IS IN PAIN! If this was taken as an advertisement showing how children are abused, they did a great job. Idiots.

Frankie

Looking at the other photos from this person, the baby is not happy and is being posed unsuccessfully. Why do people need to try these baby poses anyway. Keep it simple, and represent a NB for what they are, innocent and beautiful not as a doll to bend and twist.

MomOfTwo

So, usually I am appalled at the photos on this site, but this seems to be a stretch. Obviously this is an outtake, not a pose or composite gone wrong. I bet they were taking a little eating/burping break and photog snapped a photo. Sometimes I include outtakes in my client’s gallery, too. I probably wouldn’t watermark it and include it in my portfolio (okay, I know I wouldn’t…) but still, it’s hardly accurate to judge this person as a fauxtog based on this photo alone. I suppose it could look like the baby is “in pain”, but really…this is a pretty normal way to hold a newborn while burping them. The baby was likely upset for some other reason (i.e. needing to burp) and not because he was in a “choke hold”.